Ornament production apparatus
AssigneeRainbow Star Licensing S.A.
InventorsJames D. Mancel, Olaf B. Raiskums
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Abstract
An apparatus is disclosed for producing an ornament for gift wrapping purposes and the like. The ornament has a basic member with a plurality of radially disposed conical elements, and these basic members may be combined to produce spheroidal or hemispheroidal ornaments having a plurality of radial cones or spikes. In the method, a flat circular blank is formed with a plurality of radially disposed leaves. The leaves are wrapped around a conical form and adhesively secured to form one of the basic members. The apparatus includes a winder for wrapping the leaves around the conical form and positioning means for holding the blank and locating each leaf on the form to be wrapped into a conical element by the winder.
Claims6
Apparatus for producing an ornamental conical element from a planar blank forming at least one leaf, the leaf having a central portion and a pair of lateral portions extending from opposing sides of the central portion, comprising:
- a conial form;
- a winder assembly having means defining a concave conical bed complementary to the conical form;
- said bed being rotatable about a longitudinal axis of the conical form;
- positioning means for releasably holding the blank with the leaf positioned over the conical bed;
- means for moving the conical form relative to the winder assembly between an active position in which the conical form presses the central portion of the leaf against the bed of the winder assembly and a retracted position in which the conical form is spaced from the bed and the leaf;
- means for rotating the bed about the conical form when the conical form is in the active position, the bed rotating means rotating the bed first in one direction to wrap one of the lateral leaf portions over the conical form and then rotating the bed in an opposite direction to wrap the other lateral leaf portion over the conical form thereby forming the conical element;
- means for applying an adhesive to at least one of the lateral leaf portions to retain the conical element in the conical configuration;
- means for holding the leaf against the conical form as the leaf is wrapped about the conical form and for subsequently releasing the conical element from the conical from when adhesively retained in the conical configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.